This is because quantum computer designs (still not scalable even with high parallelism), are still Turing machines, which are limited by Turing machine constraints.

Practical computers don’t quite follow the design of a Turing Machine, but if we are prepared to sacrifice its need for an infinitely long paper tape it’s quite possible to build one.

If you really know your Magic the Gather and you’re a programming wiz you’ll appreciate this paper on building a functioning Turing Machine from Magic the Gathering cards. We’re sure you ...

Turing machines are something I'd heard of before, but had no idea what they actually were. Your explination was a little confusing to me, but I found a somewhat simpler explination here, along ...

Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson follows Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann’s efforts to build a computer based on Turing’s design and boasting a revolutionary feature: RAM.

Alan Turing posed a question in a paper he wrote in 1950: Can machines think? This question and his hypothesis in his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence would go on to deconstruct the ...

The connection between a Turing-complete machine and an algorithm pervades the computational complexity paradigm. Due to the Boolean/binary (0,1) nature of the electrical storage of memory, the ...

Alan Turing is one of the world’s best-known mathematicians, and probably the best known in the past century. This is partly for his work on cracking German codes in World War II, and partly for ...

Alan Turing's 100th birthday has passed. But you can celebrate it forever. This past week, Google open sourced the code for the animated Turing Machine logic puzzle it posted to its homepage in ...

Alan Turing was the father of modern computing, helped the allies win World War II, and was gay — which led to his arrest, and chemical castration. David Leavitt, author of The Man Who Knew Too ...